The Christian Faithful
By DON FIER For the past nine weeks, we have been unpacking the teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) on the four identifying characteristics or properties that distinguish the Catholic Church from all other churches and ecclesial communities — that she is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. The last of these four marks, that she is apostolic, was shown last week to manifest itself in three principal ways: The Church is apostolic in her origin because she is “built upon the foundation of the apostles” (Eph. 2:20) whom Christ Himself chose and commissioned to “preach the Gospel to the whole creation” (Mark 16:15); in her teaching, which remains faithful to what was originally received by the apostles…Continue Reading